A Canadian researcher found men in a relationship watch about 20 minutes of porn per week.…
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Researcher Simon Louis Lajeunesse studied twenty male college students, and found that "not one subject had a pathological sexuality. In fact, all of their sexual practices were quite conventional." Furthermore, as we mentioned yesterday, he says,

Pornography hasn't changed their perception of women or their relationship which they all want as harmonious and fulfilling as possible. Those who could not live out their fantasy in real life with their partner simply set aside the fantasy. The fantasy is broken in the real world and men don't want their partner to look like a porn star.

And finally:

Aggressors don't need pornography to be violent [...] If pornography had the impact that many claim it has, you would just have to show heterosexual films to a homosexual to change his sexual orientation.

All of Lajeunesse's subjects said they supported gender equality — which must mean they totally do! In all seriousness, it's hard to tell exactly what Lajeunesse's methodology was. But since it's unlikely that he either read the students' minds or watched them have sex, it seems like he probably just asked them how they thought about sex, relationships, and women. Their responses, while not entirely worthless, were almost certainly colored by what they thought they were supposed to say — which is that they respect women and don't expect them to look or fuck like porn stars. The students even said they "felt victimized by rhetoric demonizing pornography," which would make them extra likely to claim that porn was harmless.

Which maybe it is. But I have a hard time believing that representations of sex that boys start seeing when they're about 10 and continue watching for somewhere between 20 minutes and several hours a week (according to the study) have absolutely no effect on their sexuality or their thoughts about their partners. Lajeunesse also seems to misunderstand feminist concerns about (mainstream, heterosexual) porn. I'm not worried that pornography will cause men to have "unconventional" sex (horrors!) or that it turns all men into violent "aggressors." I just think that it may affect how men see women's bodies and women's sexuality in ways that the men may not be willing to admit, and that these effects are worthy of study. And just talking to twenty guys isn't quite enough.